Bicycle-lamp attachment.



No. 627,682. Patented June 27, I899.

W. CHAPLEAU.

BICYCLE LAMP ATTAGHMENL (Application filed Dec. 14, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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ORLANDO S. 'GAUCI'I, DAVID J. WILSON, EMIL A. PAULI, AND CHARLES T.

BLACKFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

BICYCLE-LAM P ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 627,682, dated June 27,1899. Application filed December 14, 1898. Serial No. 699,287. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILDRIO CHAPLEAU, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-LampAttachments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to enable the rider of a bicycle to turnthe reflector of his lamp to the one side or the other while ridingalong either at will or automatically with the motion of the handle-bar;and my invention consists inthe features and details of constructionhereinafter described and claimed.

I 5 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front portionof a bicycle, showing my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views ofdetails hereinafter described.

In making my improvement I employ a reflector 'A, which is mounted ,on avertical pivot a, so that it can be readily turned to the one side orthe other and thus direct the light of the lamp to the one side or theother.

shown in Fig. 3, so that they can be sprung apart and inserted over thehandle-bar and then held or fastened together by a screw (1.,

I provide the forward side of these clips with an eye at, struck out ofthe metal, as shownin Fig. 3. I provide the cords with hooks b at theends, so that they can be hooked into the eyes on the clips D and intoholes provided at the opposite sides of the reflector A. This will bereadily understood from an inspection of Fig. 1. This permits of thecords being readily taken ofi and put on again, as may be desired. Inriding every motion of the handle-bar will be communicated through thecords to the reflector, so that it will instantly turn automaticallywith and as the handle-bar and steering-wheel are turned. If desiredalso, the rider may while going straight ahead turn the reflector to theone side or the other byhand independently of the handle-bar or wheel bydrawing with his hand on the appropriate cord. While the cords areintended to be elastic or to have an elastic section in them, it isdesirable that the elastic sections should exert sufficient and equaltensions when the reflector is in its normal position directly over thefront wheel, so as to return said reflector to that position when theyare left free to do so. Whenever it is desired to remove the cords, theycan be unhooked at .their ends, leaving the clips D on the handle-bar.

Although the drawings illustrate the reflector as mounted on a verticalpivot and although I have so described it, yet it is obvious that thelamp itself, which is pivoted to the frame at B, may have the reflectorrigidly fastened tov it, so that both may be turned together upon thepivot B, by which the lamp is connected to the frame, as shown. I regardthis as an immaterial circumstance and merely mention it to show that Ihave it in mind, and that I intend when I speak in the claims of apivoted reflector or reflector turning on a vertical pivot to includeany arrangement of the reflector or lamp on a vertical pivot, so thatthe reflector can be turned either by itself or in conjunction with thelamp on such vertical pivot.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with the frame and handle-bar of a bicycle; of a lampand'reflector pivotally connected to the front end-of the frame, andconnections substantially as described whereby the reflector is turnedby and in unison with the handle-bar, substantially as described.

2. The-combination of the frame and handle-bar of a bicycle, the lampattached to the frame,and a pivotally-mounted reflector; with 9 5 cordsconnecting the reflector with the opposite ends of the handle-bar,substantially as described.

. 3. The combination of the bicycle-frame, the lamp attached thereto andthe reflector I00 pivotally mounted on the lamp; with the handle-bar andthe connections between the opposite ends of the handle-bar and the saidreflector, whereby it is turned by and in unison with the handle-bar,substantially as de'-- scribed.

4. In a bicycle, the combination of the frame, the handle bar and thelamp supported on the frame, and the pivoted reflector; with thedetachable resilient connections between the reflector and the oppositeends of the handle-bar, for the purpose and substantially as described.

5. In a bicycle, the combination of the frame, the lamp attachedthereto, and the reflector pivotally mounted on said lamp; with thedetachable resilient connections, respectively united to the oppositesides of the reflector and to the opposite ends of the handle bar, forthe purpose and substantially as described.

WILDRIC CI-IAPLEAU.

lVitnesses:

THOMAS A. BANNING, THOMAS B. MCGREGOR.

